In the paper, the authors review origins, motivations, and generalizations of a series of inequalities involving several exponential functions and sums, establish three new inequalities involving finite exponential functions and sums by finding convexity of a function related to the generating function of the Bernoulli numbers, survey the history, backgrounds, generalizations, logarithmically complete monotonicity, and applications of a series of ratios of finite gamma functions, present complete monotonicity of a linear combination of finite trigamma functions, construct a new ratio of finite gamma functions, derives monotonicity, logarithmic convexity, concavity, complete monotonicity, and the Bernstein function property of the newly constructed ratio of finite gamma functions, and suggest two linear combinations of finite trigamma functions and two ratios of finite gamma functions to be investigated.
In the article, a notion "logarithmically absolutely monotonic function" is introduced, an inclusion that a logarithmically absolutely monotonic function is also absolutely monotonic is revealed, the logarithmically complete monotonicity and the logarithmically absolute monotonicity of the function $\bigl(1+\fracαx\bigr) ^{x+β}$ are proved, where $α$ and $β$ are given real parameters, a new proof for the inclusion that a logarithmically completely monotonic function is also completely monotonic is given, and an open problem is posed.
We prove the conjecture stated in F. Qi and R. Agarwal, \textit{On complete monotonicity for several classes of functions related to ratios of gamma functions}, J. Inequal. Appl. (2019), 1-42, that the function $1/\arctan$ is logarithmically completely monotonic on $(0,\infty)$, but not a Stieltjes transform.
In this paper, we study some properties such as the monotonicity, logarithmically complete monotonicity, logarithmic convexity, and geometric convexity, of the combinations of gamma function and power function. The results we obtain generalize some related known results for parameters with specific values.
In this paper, the logarithmically complete monotonicity property for a functions involving $q$-gamma function is investigated for $q\in(0,1).$ As applications of this results, some new inequalities for the $q$-gamma function are established. Furthermore, let the sequence $r_n$ be defined by $$n!=\sqrt{2πn}(n/e)^n e^{r_n}.$$ We establish new estimates for Stirling's formula remainder $r_n.$
In the paper, the authors establish integral representations of some functions related to the remainder of Burnside's formula for the gamma function and find the (logarithmically) complete monotonicity of these and related functions. These results extend and generalize some known conclusions.
For $m,n\in \mathbb{N}$, let $0 < α_i,β_j,λ_{ij} \leq 1$ be such that $\sum_{j=1}^n λ_{ij} = α_i$, $\sum_{i=1}^m λ_{ij} = β_j$, and $\sum_{i=1}^m α_i = \sum_{j=1}^n β_j \leq 1$. We prove that the ratio of gamma functions \begin{equation*} \hspace{-15mm}t \mapsto \frac{\prod_{i=1}^m Γ(α_i t + 1) \prod_{j=1}^n Γ(β_j t + 1)}{\prod_{i=1}^m \prod_{j=1}^n Γ(λ_{ij} t + 1)} \end{equation*} is logarithmically completely monotonic on $(0,\infty)$. This result complements the logarithmically complete monotonicity of multinomial probabilities shown in Ouimet (2018), Qi et al (2018), and the recent survey …
We prove complete monotonicity of sums of squares of generalized Baskakov basis functions by deriving the corresponding results for hypergeometric functions. Moreover, in the central Baskakov case we study the distribution of the complex zeros for large values of a parameter. We finally discuss the extension of some results for sums of higher powers.
In this article, logarithmically complete monotonicity properties of some functions such as $\frac1{[Γ(x+1)]^{1/x}}$, $\frac{[{Γ(x+α+1)}]^{1/(x+α)}}{[{Γ(x+1)}]^{1/x}}$, $\frac{[Γ(x+1)]^{1/x}}{(x+1)^α}$ and $\frac{[Γ(x+1)]^{1/x}}{x^α}$ defined in $(-1,\infty)$ or $(0,\infty)$ for given real number $α\in\tr$ are obtained, some known results are recovered, extended and generalized. Moreover, some basic properties of the logarithmically completely monotonic functions are established.
In this expository and survey paper, along one of main lines of bounding the ratio of two gamma functions, we look back and analyse some inequalities, several complete monotonicity of functions involving ratios of two gamma or $q$-gamma functions, and necessary and sufficient conditions for functions involving ratios of two gamma or $q$-gamma functions to be logarithmically completely monotonic.
In the paper, necessary and sufficient conditions are presented for a function involving a ratio of gamma functions to be logarithmically completely monotonic. This extends and generalizes the main result in [\emph{Inequalities and monotonicity for the ratio of gamma functions}, Taiwanese J. Math. \textbf{7} (2003), no.~2, 239\nobreakdash--247.] and others. As applications, several inequalities involving the volume of the unit ball in $\mathbb{R}^n$ are derived, which refine, generalize and extend some known inequalities.
In the paper, the authors concisely survey and review some functions involving the gamma function and its various ratios, simply state their logarithmically complete monotonicity and related results, and find necessary and sufficient conditions for a new function involving the ratio of two gamma functions and originating from the coding gain to be logarithmically completely monotonic.
In this expository and survey paper, along one of main lines of bounding the ratio of two gamma functions, we look back and analyse some inequalities, the complete monotonicity of several functions involving ratios of two gamma or $q$-gamma functions, the logarithmically complete monotonicity of a function involving the ratio of two gamma functions, some new bounds for the ratio of two gamma functions and divided differences of polygamma functions, and related monotonicity results.
In the paper, the author studies properties of three functions relating to the exponential function and the existence of partitions of unity, including accurate and explicit computation of their derivatives, analyticity, complete monotonicity, logarithmically complete monotonicity, absolute monotonicity, and the like.
We give some necessary and some sufficient conditions for the complete monotonicity on the negative half-line of a Mittag-Leffler function of Le Roy type. It is conjectured that the underlying positive random variable, when it exists, must be logarithmically infinitely divisible.
We mainly establish a monotonicity property between some special Riemann sums of a convex function $f$ on $[a,b]$, which in particular yields that $\frac{b-a}{n+1}\sum_{i=0}^n f\left(a+i\frac{b-a}{n}\right)$ is decreasing while $\frac{b-a}{n-1}\sum_{i=1}^{n-1} f\left(a+i\frac{b-a}{n}\right)$ is an increasing sequence. These give us a new refinement of the Hermitt-Hadamard inequality. Moreover, we give a refinement of the classical Alzer's inequality together with a suitable converse to it. Applications regarding to some important convex functions are also included.
We investigate conditions for logarithmic complete monotonicity of product ratios of gamma and q-gamma functions whose arguments are linear functions of the variable. We give necessary and sufficient conditions in terms of nonnegativity of a certain explicitly written measure in the q case and of a certain elementary function in the classical q=1 case. In the latter case we further provide simple new sufficient conditions leading to many new examples of logarithmically completely monotonic gamma ratios. Finally, we apply some of our results to study monotonicity of some gamma ratios and ration…
In the paper, the authors establish an inequality involving exponential functions and sums, introduce a ratio of many gamma functions, discuss properties, including monotonicity, logarithmic convexity, (logarithmically) complete monotonicity, and the Bernstein function property, of the newly introduced ratio, and construct two inequalities of multinomial coefficients and multivariate beta functions.
The main aim of this paper is to prove that the double inequality \frac{(k-1)!}{\Bigl\{x+\Bigl[\frac{(k-1)!}{|ψ^{(k)}(1)|}\Bigr]^{1/k}\Bigr\}^k} +\frac{k!}{x^{k+1}}<\bigl|ψ^{(k)}(x)\bigr|<\frac{(k-1)!}{\bigl(x+\frac12\bigr)^k}+\frac{k!}{x^{k+1}} holds for $x>0$ and $k\in\mathbb{N}$ and that the constants $\Bigl[\frac{(k-1)!}{|ψ^{(k)}(1)|}\Bigr]^{1/k}$ and $\frac12$ are the best possible. In passing, some related inequalities and (logarithmically) complete monotonicity results concerning the gamma, psi and polygamma functions are surveyed.
Moore and Yang defined an integral notion, based on an extension of Riemann sums, for inclusion monotonic continuous interval functions, where the integrations limits are real numbers. This integral notion extend the usual integration of real functions based on Riemann sums. In this paper, we extend this approach by considering intervals as integration limits instead of real numbers and we abolish the inclusion monotonicity restriction of the interval functions and this notion is used to determine interval probability density functions.
Let $ψ(x)$ be the di-gamma function, the logarithmic derivative of the classical Euler's gamma function $Γ(x)$. In the paper, the author shows that the completely monotonic degree of the function $[ψ'(x)]^2+ψ''(x)$ is $4$, surveys the history and motivation of the topic, supplies a proof for the claim that a function $f(x)$ is strongly completely monotonic if and only if the function $xf(x)$ is completely monotonic, conjectures the completely monotonic degree of a function involving $[ψ'(x)]^2+ψ''(x)$, presents the logarithmic concavity and monotonicity of an elementary function, and poses an …
